As China’s architectural profession matures, many of its firms continue to redefine the design landscape with bold, imaginative and culturally sensitive creations that seek to improve the lives of end users. Perspective looks at seven leading Chinese designers in the field and discovers what lessons can be learned for the rest of Asia and the …

Believing in “architecture is for the masses”, People’s Architecture Office (PAO) has reinvented an old courtyard house to create a modern home in historic Beijing — at a price 30 times less than a regular apartment in the Chinese capital Beijing has seen property prices soaring as high as its skyscrapers rise thanks to ongoing …